{"id":29443,"date":"2016-06-20T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T20:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=29443"},"modified":"2023-11-15T02:14:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T08:14:17","slug":"lea-wait-mainely-needlepoint-mystery-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/lea-wait-mainely-needlepoint-mystery-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Lea Wait: Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Twisted<\/a> \"\"The next series I’m going to cover from the\u00a0monthly most recommended mystery series<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0Lea Wait’s Mainely Needlepoint\u00a0Mystery Series.\u00a0<\/strong>Twisted Threads\u00a0<\/em>is the first book in this very popular series.\u00a0Lea Wait<\/a><\/strong> writes both\u00a0the Mainely Needlepoint Series\u00a0and the Shadows Antique Print Mystery Series<\/strong>. (This link<\/a>\u00a0lists all the books from these two series.)<\/p>\n

As you might guess from the series title, Twisted Threads<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>is set in a small fictional town on the coast of Maine, Haven Harbor. The story begins when\u00a0Angie Curtis, a private investigator working in Arizona, receives\u00a0a call from her grandmother telling her it is time to come home because\u00a0her mother has been found. Angie’s mother disappeared almost 20 years earlier when Angie was\u00a0almost ten. Now her body has been found and Angie returns to town after a ten-year (or so) absence.<\/p>\n

Of course, Angie’s mother had been murdered. So Angie, trained as a private investigator, naturally wants to help solve the mystery of how her mom came to be killed.<\/p>\n

While Angie was away, her grandmother’s needlepointing has turned into a sort of co-op business with Charlotte (her grandmother) arranging for custom work for Haven Harbor’s handful of\u00a0needlepointers. Things had been going well with the Mainely Needlepoint group until a man convinced Charlotte to let him represent the group by gathering orders all around New England and collecting the earnings for them. This arrangement worked fine until the man stopped bringing the money around to Charlotte to distribute to the group.<\/p>\n

So, Angie volunteers to find the man and see what she could do to retrieve what the group was owed. And, not long into the story, another murder occurs, giving Angie’s private investigator training a real workout!<\/p>\n

Twisted Threads<\/em> is a typical modern Cozy with a few somewhat unusual elements. Not too many Cozy Mystery sleuths carry a gun, for example. Angie is a bit on the harder side of Cozy sleuths with the suggestion that she has lived a relatively wild life (for a Cozy sleuth!) both before and after she left Haven Harbor. The town is full of interesting characters including a minister who has a large Ouija board collection which he uses on occasion. (Some readers\u00a0may be bothered by the minister using a\u00a0Ouija board.)<\/p>\n

Another warning is\u00a0in order. The book includes some references to pedophilia that happened years ago in the town. I know some Cozy readers do\u00a0not want a Cozy to deal with such serious issues, but this one does.<\/p>\n

Despite its more serious and hard-edged undertones, the book is a fast read and has a lot of Cozy elements. The story is set in an interesting small town on the coast of Maine. The characters are varied, and Angie’s grandmother is a three-dimensional character with some surprises of her own. And, there is hint of possible romance to come for Angie. And for many Cozy Mystery readers, the setting is particularly attractive!<\/p>\n

P.S. If you’d like to see more highlights of some of the most recommended or popular Cozy Mystery authors\/series, visit the\u00a0Most Popular & Recommended Cozy Mystery Series page <\/a>on my site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next series I’m going to cover from the\u00a0monthly most recommended mystery series\u00a0is\u00a0Lea Wait’s Mainely Needlepoint\u00a0Mystery Series.\u00a0Twisted Threads\u00a0is the first book in this very popular series.\u00a0Lea Wait writes both\u00a0the Mainely Needlepoint Series\u00a0and the Shadows Antique Print Mystery Series. (This link\u00a0lists all the books from these two series.) As you might guess from the series title, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,9,58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-authors","7":"category-books","8":"category-most-popular-and-recommended-mystery-series","9":"entry","10":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-7ET","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29443"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41825,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29443\/revisions\/41825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}